The Green Party promises to ban the use of cages to rear game birds

by gamebirds_admin | Oct 12, 2018 | Timeline

The Green Party released its Animal Manifesto. In it, it promised to ban the use of cages to rear game birds.

Animal Aid investigators found pheasants fitted with beak shrouds leaping at the wire mesh, and dead birds in the cages

by gamebirds_admin | Oct 12, 2018 | Timeline

Animal Aid investigators found pheasants fitted with beak shrouds leaping at the wire mesh (‘scalping’). There were dead birds in the cages, which were ‘enriched’ only with one piece of wood and a green ‘privacy’ curtain. Action: Animal Aid released details to the...

RSPCA updates published policies to include gamebirds

by gamebirds_admin | Oct 12, 2018 | Timeline

The RSPCA’s published policies include: ‘The RSPCA is opposed to the battery cage system, or variations of that system, for egg production in domestic fowl and gamebirds’.

Animal Aid findings reported to North Yorkshire Animal Health

by gamebirds_admin | Oct 12, 2018 | Timeline

Animal Aid investigators found a chick whose raw-looking head was devoid of any feathers, and another trapped under a water pipe. We also filmed: plastic sacks and floors crawling with maggots; vast quantities of eggs and dead new-born chicks spilling out of sacks and...

Animal Aid investigators found dead and dying chicks in 20 sheds

by gamebirds_admin | Oct 12, 2018 | Timeline

Owned (at that time) by Jonathan Crow, chairman of the trade body the Game Farmers’ Association (GFA). Animal Aid investigators found 20 occupied sheds with verandas, with dead and dying chicks in all 20 sheds. We found wheelie bins full of maggot-ridden adult birds,...